Contains short biographies about Vittoria Colonna, Margaret More, Madame Duplessis Mornay, La Mere Angelique, Madame Guyon, Madame de la Garaye, Meta Klopstock, Mrs Trimmer, Hannah More, Elisabeth of France, the Five Sisters of Noailles, Mrs Siddons, Mrs Lyde Browne, Mrs Leadbrater, Harriet M. Bowdler, Dorothy Wordsworth, Sarah Martin and Eugenie de Guerin.